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Example sentences for: pendulum

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The pendulum swung away from those types of investigations during the 1980s and 1990s, though the FBI maintained an active counterintelligence function and was the lead agency for the investigation of foreign terrorist groups operating inside the United States.
For the next several years the pendulum of power in Spain swung back and forth between Left and Right.
The analog process in a mechanical watch is the motion of the pendulum or balance wheel and, in quartz watches, the electrical wave produced by a crystal oscillator.
Doctors used to dictate treatment, but in the past decade the pendulum has swung too far toward patient autonomy.
Although the pendulum swung back after Angleton's forced retirement, it did not go very far.